A Good Read

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Kamila Shamsie

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A Good Read: Andrew Maxwell and Kamila Shamsie

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Andrew Maxwell and Kamila Shamsie reveal the books they love to Harriett Gilbert.

4 Extra Debut. Andrew Maxwell, Kamila Shamsie and Harriett Gilbert discuss Doris Lessing, Anita Desai and John Steinbeck. From 2014.

Harriett Gilbert and her guests - Irish stand-up comedian, Andrew Maxwell and Pakistani writer, Kamila Shamsie - discuss their favourite books by Doris Lessing, Anita Desai and John Steinbeck. 

Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
Publisher:  Vintage

Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
Publisher: Penguin

In Pursuit of the English by Doris Lessing
Publisher: Fourth Estate

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2014.

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